Simon Luckinbill Biography: Age, Family, Parents, Career, and Personal Life

Let me start with something that every biography of Simon Luckinbill quietly skips. His parents, Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Luckinbill, married on June 22, 1980. On December 10, 1980, Simon Thomas Luckinbill was born.That’s 24 weeks. Less than six months between the wedding and the birth. Lucie Arnaz — the daughter of Lucille Ball, the woman who spent her career being the princess of television royalty — was pregnant at her own wedding. Simon Luckinbill is the child who proves that the “perfect Hollywood love story” of his parents began with an unplanned or at least premarital pregnancy, and every biographical profile that calls their union a “storybook romance” has been looking at the calendar wrong.

This is not a moral judgment. It’s a historical note. But it matters, because the framing of Simon’s family history — the loving marriage, the theatrical partnership, the romantic ideal — is slightly different from what the dates actually say.

Quick Bio

Detail	Info
Full name	Simon Thomas Luckinbill
Born	December 10, 1980 — Los Angeles, California
Parents’ wedding	June 22, 1980 — six months before Simon’s birth
Father	Laurence Luckinbill (actor, playwright, director; Tony-nominated)
Mother	Actress and singer Lucie Arnaz is the daughter of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
Full siblings	Joseph Luckinbill and Katharine Luckinbill
Half-siblings	Benjamin and Nicholas Luckinbill (from Laurence’s initial union with Robin Strasser)
Grandparents	Lucille Ball (died April 26, 1989, when Simon was 8); Desi Arnaz (died Dec 2, 1986, when Simon was 6)
Career	Visual artist; painter; acrylic on canvas and mixed media
Documented exhibition	Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs, 2014
Social media	None confirmed
Birth year discrepancy	One site says December 30, 1971 — wrong by 9 years

He Was Eight When Lucille Ball Died

His grandmother was Lucille Ball. Not “television pioneer Lucille Ball” in the abstract — his actual grandmother, the woman who was Lucie Arnaz’s mother. Simon was six years old when his grandfather Desi Arnaz died in December 1986. He was eight when Lucille Ball died in April 1989.

Think about that timeline from a child’s perspective. These legendary figures died when he was old enough to have memories of them but not old enough to have adult relationships with them. Lucie Arnaz has spoken openly about her complicated relationship with her parents’ legacy — the divorce, the pressure, the mythology of I Love Lucy as both a gift and a kind of prison. Simon received that inheritance at one remove, as the grandchild rather than the child, which is arguably a lighter burden. But it’s still the Arnaz-Ball legacy. It still follows him.

He chose not to perform. Not to act. Not to sing. He picked up a brush instead. There’s probably a graduate thesis somewhere about what that says.

The Half-Siblings Nobody Explains Clearly

Laurence Luckinbill was married before Lucie Arnaz. His first wife was actress Robin Strasser — most famous for her Emmy-winning work on the soap opera One Life to Live. Nicholas and Benjamin Luckinbill were their two sons.

Multiple content farm sites describe Nicholas and Benjamin as Simon’s “half-siblings” or “step-siblings” without explaining the context. The confusion is understandable — a 91-year-old actor with children spanning multiple decades of marriages produces a complicated family tree that the quick-facts format can’t accommodate. Robin Strasser and Lucille Ball. I love Lucy and I only have one life to live. The step-siblings come from a first family that existed before the television royal family came into the picture.

The oldest child of the second, more well-known marriage is Simon Luckinbill. He grew up with brothers and sisters who share half his parentage, and half-brothers who grew up in a different household entirely.

What He Actually Did With His Life

He is a visual artist. A painter. Acrylic on canvas, mixed media. Bold and colorful work, per the descriptions that surface in content farm profiles — though those descriptions are second-hand, reconstructing an artistic practice from what little has been reported rather than from actual encounter with the paintings.

The most frequently mentioned key event in his career life is the 2014 exhibition at Palm Springs’ Archangel Gallery. It’s mentioned consistently enough across independent sources that it appears to be real. I couldn’t locate direct coverage from a primary source — no press review — but the consistent citation suggests something actually happened there.Palm Springs is a market that promotes visual artists without the harsh New York gallery machine, so choosing it as the location for a debut solo show in 2014 makes sense and it’s accessible to the California entertainment world his family inhabits.

He explored music. He studied nutrition, or at least seriously enough that multiple sources mention it. He wrote poetry. The portrait of Simon Luckinbill that emerges is of someone who moved between creative and intellectual interests before settling on visual art as the primary form. That’s not a straight line. Most people don’t have straight lines. The content farms call this “finding his creative voice,” which is the most vapid possible framing for what looks like a genuine exploratory process.

The Name He Kept

He goes by Simon Luckinbill. Not Simon Arnaz. Not Simon Ball. He carries the name of his father — a genuinely accomplished actor, Tony-nominated, who played Lyndon Johnson in a one-man show and played Sybok in Star Trek V — but not the name that would have had the most impact on American entertainment.

Let me be honest about what I find interesting here. If you’re born the grandson of Lucille Ball, you have a surname available to you that is essentially a master key. “Arnaz” opens rooms. It gets you on talk shows to discuss your grandmother. It generates exactly the biographical interest the content farms are now generating anyway, but with more traction and on better terms.

He didn’t take it. He’s Simon Luckinbill. His mother is Lucie Arnaz. His grandmother was Lucille Ball. But he’s just Simon Luckinbill, painter.

The Performance Lineage He Stepped Out Of

Lucie Arnaz did stage work, television, film. She won an Emmy. She and Laurence Luckinbill toured together in theatrical productions. Laurence performed one-man shows about Hemingway, Lincoln, Darrow, Lyndon Johnson — serious demanding performance work built over decades. Lucille Ball ran Desilu Productions, the studio that produced I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. Desi Arnaz was a musician and producer of real significance.

Four generations of performance, production, and public presence. And Simon makes paintings.

Here’s the thing: painting requires a public to see the work, but it doesn’t require Simon to be present for it. It doesn’t require him to embody characters, speak lines, hit marks, or manage the specific kind of attention that performance draws. The audience for a painting can have a relationship with the work without a relationship with the person who made it. That’s a fundamentally different relationship with public life than anything else in his family’s history.

I think that’s probably the point.

The Content Farm Disasters

One site publishes Simon Luckinbill’s birth date as December 30, 1971, making him 53 as of 2025. The correct date is December 10, 1980. The discrepancy is nine years. Nobody corrected it. The site also says he was born “in the United States” — technically true and technically the most useless geographical information available.

Other sites estimate his net worth at anywhere from $100,000 to $2 million. None have sources. They are placeholders entered into a template since no one expected a subject with no recorded earnings in the public record, and the template calls for a net worth column.

One site says he was “raised in New York City.” Another says he grew up in Los Angeles. He was born in Los Angeles, and the family’s primary base for much of his childhood was the Northeast — his parents toured and worked across coasts — but the precise geography of his upbringing isn’t clearly documented. Both versions circulate without either being definitively confirmed.

The Quiet Life in Context

He has no social media. In 2026, that’s not accidental for someone in their mid-forties from a famous family who has had gallery exhibitions. He’s not Amish. He’s aware of Instagram. He has chosen not to be on it, which in the current environment is a genuine decision with genuine consequences for visibility and career. A painter without social media in 2026 is making a specific statement about how they want their work to reach an audience.

His brother Joseph Luckinbill has more of a public presence. His sister Katharine is similarly private. His half-brothers Nicholas and Benjamin — also private. The entire generation of Luckinbill children, across both marriages, appears to have collectively opted out of the celebrity inheritance. That’s worth noting as a pattern rather than an individual choice.

My Actual Judgment

Simon Luckinbill is more interesting as a biographical subject than the content farms are equipped to communicate. Not because of what he’s done — the documented record of his adult life is genuinely thin — but because of what the thin record represents. He’s the eldest grandson of one of the most famous women in American television history. He was born six months after his parents’ wedding. He watched both famous grandparents die before he was nine. He grew up in a household of theatrical intensity and chose paint.

He has a grandmother who is immortal in the American cultural memory, and he has chosen to be someone the internet doesn’t know very well. Given what the internet does with the people it knows — given what it did with Lucille Ball’s legacy, and with Lucie Arnaz’s complicated inheritance of that legacy — I would probably make the same call.

A note on what the research couldn’t confirm: the specifics of Simon’s paintings — what they look like, what subjects or themes he pursues, whether his work has been reviewed by anyone with actual credentials in the visual arts — are almost completely unavailable. The description of his work as “bold, colorful” appears across multiple sites as if it’s known fact, but traces back to a single source that apparently saw the work. What remains is the biographical outline, the lineage, and the fact of the paintings — not the paintings themselves. That might be exactly what he intended.

FAQs

1. Who is Simon Luckinbill?

A visual artist born December 10, 1980, in Los Angeles. He is the eldest son of actress/singer Lucie Arnaz and actor/playwright Laurence Luckinbill, and the maternal grandson of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. He works primarily in acrylic on canvas and had his first major exhibition at Archangel Gallery in Palm Springs in 2014.

2. Is Simon Luckinbill the grandson of Lucille Ball?

Yes. Lucie Arnaz is Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s daughter. Simon is their maternal grandson. Lucille Ball died April 26, 1989, when Simon was eight. Desi Arnaz died December 2, 1986, when Simon was six.

3. What does Simon Luckinbill do for a living?

He is a visual artist and painter — acrylic on canvas and mixed media. He has at least one documented gallery exhibition (Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs, 2014) and has also explored music, poetry, and nutrition studies.

4. How old is Simon Luckinbill?

45 as of December 2025 (born December 10, 1980). One content farm site incorrectly states his birth year as 1971, making him appear to be 53 — wrong by nine years.

5. Who are Simon Luckinbill’s siblings?

Full siblings: Joseph and Katharine Luckinbill (also children of Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Luckinbill). Half-siblings: Nicholas and Benjamin Luckinbill (from Laurence’s first marriage to actress Robin Strasser).

6. Is Simon Luckinbill an actor?

No. Despite multiple generations of performers in his family, he chose visual art over acting, theater, or music.

7. Are Simon Luckinbill’s parents still married?

Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Luckinbill married June 22, 1980, and as of all available records remain married. Laurence Luckinbill, born in 1934, is in his nineties.

8. Did Simon Luckinbill use the Arnaz or Ball surname?

No. He goes by Simon Luckinbill, taking his father’s name. He has not professionally used Arnaz, Ball, or any version of his grandmother’s famous surname.

9. Does Simon Luckinbill have social media?

He doesn’t have a confirmed social media presence. He appears to maintain a consistently non-public profile.

10. Where does Simon Luckinbill live?

Not publicly documented. He was born in Los Angeles, grew up across Northeast and California, and his 2014 Palm Springs exhibition suggests a California connection. No confirmed current address or city is available.

11. What is Simon Luckinbill’s net worth?

Unknown. Estimates from $100,000 to $2 million circulate with no sourcing. He is a working visual artist with at least one documented gallery exhibition; his actual financial position is not part of the public record.

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